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Fame Through Youtube - Yes Or No

Discussion in 'Starbound Discussion' started by Red Space Monkey, Feb 24, 2012.

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Do you think that Starbound should be advertised through Youtube celebrities?

  1. Of course.

    34 vote(s)
    50.7%
  2. I'm not sure.

    16 vote(s)
    23.9%
  3. I don't think so.

    17 vote(s)
    25.4%
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  1. Red Space Monkey

    Red Space Monkey Phantasmal Quasar

    Would you consider it a wise decision to prerelease Starbound to certain wellknown Youtube stars like the Yogscast to advertise the game? Or is this method already too overused? Could negative reputation arise from this way of public communication? Or will it prove useful again?

    Tell me your opinion.
     
  2. Afterscore

    Afterscore Weight of the Sky

    It would depend on the youtube celebrities and how they show the game to their fanbase.

    For example Pbat did an awesome job at showcasing Terraria for advertising, whereas the Yogscast did a pretty pathetic job. Which was very disappointing for me as I was a subscriber of the yogscast at the time and I had been following Terraria's development progress; only to see my favourite youtube channel do a poor job of showcasing it.

    TL;DR: As long as they do it well it would probably be successful.
     
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  3. Red Space Monkey

    Red Space Monkey Phantasmal Quasar

    Yepp, a very good point. I think many people were scared away by the way the Yogscast "played" the game. Maybe it would be good if the Youtubers played the game before they release videos to see if it fits their taste, so they don't stop playing seriously after 10 minutes.
     
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  4. Afterscore

    Afterscore Weight of the Sky

    This this this. I really couldn't understand why the Yogscast would agree to do a Lets Play series of Terraria only to stop 3 episodes in with no mention of it after that.
     
  5. gejiryu

    gejiryu Big Damn Hero

    Definitively yeahs (lolwut?), the game would get so much more people and a community and be a successful game, and the devs would get richs :eek:
     
  6. Drewdawg

    Drewdawg Big Damn Hero

    Let PBat do it! He's a champ! :)
     
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  7. Remnant Drive

    Remnant Drive Pangalactic Porcupine

    Why not Zoidberg? Tobuscus? He's a funny guy, and a lot of people seem to follow him.
     
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  8. Drewdawg

    Drewdawg Big Damn Hero

    Tobuscus is very funny indeed :)
     
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  9. Wargod

    Wargod Pangalactic Porcupine

    I thought he was hilarious when I first started watching his videos. But lately his videos just seem to piss me off, he's so bad at all the games he plays. Yes it's funny for a while but it just becomes too much lol.

    ont:
    I would like to see some well-known youtube gamers play Starbound for sure. And I think it would greatly widen the potential fan-base of this game.
    And since I'm also so curious and impatient to find out what this game is going to be like I'd be watching those videos as well.
     
  10. Red Space Monkey

    Red Space Monkey Phantasmal Quasar

    I personally disliked PBats videos, sometimes he made me yell at the screen. ^^ But I think he did a great job, because you actually felt that he had fun playing Terraria, and this is important.
     
  11. Red Space Monkey

    Red Space Monkey Phantasmal Quasar

    The Terraria videos of the yogscast weren't interesting at all, they weren't even funny. And if I had watched them without even ever hearing about Terraria, this game would have had a much smaller appeal on me.
     
  12. Brain Maniac

    Brain Maniac Industrial Terraformer

    NO! that will attract a lot of the annoying kids that dont know anything about gaming to starbound! also, most people will watch the walkthroughs rather than playing the game itself!
     
  13. Afterscore

    Afterscore Weight of the Sky

    Same here, but that was what made watching the Yogscast videos so much more painful and heart breaking ;__;
     
  14. Brain Maniac

    Brain Maniac Industrial Terraformer

    yes, but i can tell, at least half of people that watch it won't play the actual game - it will bring more people, yes, but it spoils and makes your gameplay less fun, that's why there are trailers, people learns about the game by themselves, not by youtubers that make Let's plays
     
  15. TehEpikMonk

    TehEpikMonk Spaceman Spiff

    So the solution is make watching it optional, which it already is. Also, more than half the people who watch it will buy it. I guarantee it.
     
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  16. Wargod

    Wargod Pangalactic Porcupine

    Is it your extreme monkness that's making your text appear in the holy color of gold? :eek:
     
  17. Brain Maniac

    Brain Maniac Industrial Terraformer

    my point is, that a lot of people follow the Yogscast, PBat, SlyFox, and much other famous youtubers. If people knew about the game because of sources like that, starbound would be flooded with immature people - exactly what happened with the minecraft comunity :eek:
     
  18. Red Space Monkey

    Red Space Monkey Phantasmal Quasar

    The Terraria community is pretty mature I think, and this game got promoted by PBat alot, so the chance of flooding the community with trolling children is always there, even without youtubers advertising it. Not all immature people watch Yogscast and not all mature persons find their games through pure luck.
     
  19. Jaber

    Jaber Pangalactic Porcupine

    Only if they get it less than a week before release so we don't end up with people whining about it constantly for months like what happened with Terraria.
    It also makes sure that people who watch it are watching a current version instead of a half finished one.
     
  20. Jaber

    Jaber Pangalactic Porcupine

    I was referring more to the people who do things like make topics about how the game needs balancing based on their watching pbat play and alpha version of the game, or even worse, the people who start to get all pissy about which LPers do or do not "deserve" to make an early LP for their entertainment, eugh.
     
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